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For context on fusion reactors I recommend edx's plasma physics and fusion course. From that it seemed fusion reactors that give a net power surplus, maybe, are just not possible in such confined envs on earth. 80 years of incredibly smart people with billions chasing the problem, with the first Tokamak reactor going back the 60s. Even ITER, the world's most expensive scientific endeavor ever, is still a question mark if it will work.

Would love to be convinced otherwise to be hopeful of confined fusion reactions on Earth.

Would love to see the 40 year update...

Shelling out our industrial/manufacturing economy for a "services economy" + big government/welfare economy has ended the middle class; meanwhile the political class (and media) have consolidated into a front group for an increasingly hidden ruling class/aristocracy, who like the companies behind shell companies are pretty hard to identify and lampoon.

This of course would be an intriguing book to read should someone dare to write it.

Just FYI no death has been officially linked to a "rioter", no firearms have been found in connection with it. Sites like ZH are tracking all this, because to many it smells like yet another staging of political capital.

Discourse degraded or maybe it's the coordination of thought made possible from the consolidation of media and the internet, that's made it now possible to target those who seem to threaten the ruling class and their ways.

Political theater be political theater. Wonder what new measures they want to push, for "safety" against "domestic terrorism"?

People won't trust the technology until people around them are safely riding in it. To be expected.

A nitpick, I'm living in one of these countries that "eradicated Covid" and the frankly obvious truth is they didn't, their borders were completely open for months after covid was detected and spreading like fire, and they never adapted the widespread testing and mortality classification regimes like the US did.

I don't know, anecdotally, relationships broke down with me and other stakeholders, and I ended up leaving the company, after I pushed hard for an amazing candidate, the first to ever ace my interviews, whereas said other stakeholders wanted a certain diversity candidate, who while I enjoyed meeting didn't do that well. The funny thing is in SF it's the bro-y white guy CEOs who push the wokeness the hardest. Almost feels performative. SF needs to solve these problems if they want to be a tech mecca.

Same. I remember receiving letters in Japanese at the time of the bankruptcy. I put them on my refrigerator for guests to see because I thought they were amusing. Now it's just depressing to think about.

I'm not sure you read the article. Author is alleging the prime broker/clearing house system regularly "gives out" shares to sell on the market (diluting company's shares) with no transparency in the reconciliation because the main clearing system is privately owned. You're better off reading the full article since my summary is extremely surface level.

> people might start to think 'Hate Speech' could be misused to pursue an agenda

If people don't already think this then they haven't been living in America.

We'll unlikely reach said number because over 50% of the population of the us is not interested in a vaccine because they do not view covid-19 as a disease much more risky than the flu.

Facing this reality, the policy will probably be once everyone who wants it has had a chance to get it, things will or should move towards normal.

Being watched and served recommendations is not the revolutionary paradigm for computers imo.